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David Mason – Mamet’s Self-Parody: A Response to Maurice Charney

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Mamet’s Self-Parody: A Response to Maurice Charney David Mason Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) In his article, Maurice Charney asserts that, whatever else David Mamet may be doing in his plays—and in Oleanna and Boston Marriage, specifically—he parodies himself. That is, Mamet’s work is persistently self−referential: at every of […]

Verna A. Foster – Stylistic Self-Consciousness Versus Parody in David Mamet: A Response to Maurice Charney

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Stylistic Self-Consciousness Versus Parody in David Mamet: A Response to Maurice Charney Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Defining parody as “a form of imitation for satirical purposes,” Maurice Charney in his essay “Parody—and Self−Parody in David Mamet” notes that it is an “acute, stylistic self−consciousness” such […]

Edward Lobb – Waugh’s Conrad and Victorian Gothic: A Reply to Martin Stannard and John Howard Wilson

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Waugh’s Conrad and Victorian Gothic: A Reply to Martin Stannard and John Howard Wilson Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) I am delighted that my article on Waugh, Conrad and Eliot has prompted such detailed, erudite, and thoughtful responses from Martin Stannard, Waugh’s biographer, and John Howard Wilson, […]

Philip McGowan – The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby

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The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby Philip McGowan Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) I To argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long−held masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925) produces in the United States of the 1920s a replication of Bakhtinian forms of carnival excess and release is an interesting, and […]

Barbara C. Bowen – P. G. Wodehouse Linguist?

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P. G. Wodehouse Linguist?15) Barbara C. Bowen Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) One of the world’s great comic writers, “English literature’s performing flea” (according to Sean O’Casey), a linguist? Surely not. In the first place, we Brits have traditionally been resistant to learning foreign languages (on the grounds that […]

Dan Harder – The Tempest in the Trivium

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The Tempest in the Trivium Dan Harder Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) To the delight of his audiences, both past and present, Shakespeare rarely created names of stubbornly obscure origin. In his last play, however, it seems he did just that. I refer, namely, to Sycorax—witch−mother of Caliban and, […]

Andreas K. Müller – Shakespeare’s Country Opposition: Titus Andronicus in the Early Eighteenth Century

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Shakespeare’s Country Opposition: Titus Andronicus in the Early Eighteenth Century Andreas K. Müller Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Since the play’s first performance in the early 1590s, Titus Andronicus has enjoyed a rather uneven performance history. William Shakespeare’s first revenge tragedy achieved some considerable popularity in the playwright’s lifetime, […]